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Section: Other News
Veterans
NC Unveils Resource Guide for Veterans
The North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs has released its annual resource guide. The guide provides a one-stop-shop for information on employment services, health care, VA benefits and education. It also supplies information on help for veteran entrepreneurs, women’s services and assistance for active-duty military personnel. The secretary of the North Carolina Department […]
August 9, 2018
Veterans
Take Advantage of GI Bill Changes
Although the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Aug. 16, 2017, there are still major changes to come. The act, also known as the Forever GI Bill, is a step in the right direction by allowing those veterans who served honorably to continue pursuing their […]
August 9, 2018
Academics
Pentagon’s Spouse Website Down
Military spouses eligible for up to $4,000 in tuition assistance through a Defense Department program can’t apply for the benefit thanks to technical problems that have extended a planned July server outage into August. The planned updates to the My Career Advancement Account online portal, including the move to a new website, were slated to […]
August 9, 2018
Other News
Select Spouses to Receive Designation for Financial Counseling
Fifty military spouses living in the United States and abroad have the opportunity to earn an Accredited Financial Counselor designation that allows them to offer one-on-one financial and group counseling and education to service members and their families, according to a recent FINRA announcement. The FINRA Foundation Military Spouse Fellowship program, which was first launched […]
August 9, 2018
Academics
Accreditation Overhaul Could Be Good News for Online Schools
In late July, the Trump administration announced plans that could amount to a massive overhaul of higher education. Seeking greater innovation, the government wants to revise rules for college accrediting agencies. While it seems likely that the plan will be met with considerable resistance from some stakeholders, for online postsecondary institutions, the proposed overhaul on college […]
August 9, 2018
Academics
Mississippi State Pledges Free Tuition for Guard Members
STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State University is guaranteeing free tuition for Mississippi National Guard members studying full time for an undergraduate degree. University President Mark Keenum and National Guard commander Maj. Gen. Janson “Durr” Boyles signed the agreement Tuesday. University spokesman Sid Salter says Mississippi State receives $2,250 per guard member for tuition already. Mississippi […]
August 9, 2018
Academics
War College Families Adjust to New Surroundings
For many military families coming into the U.S. Army War College for the 2018-2019 academic year, Friday night was their first one out in Carlisle—but they’re hardly new to the process of exploring a new community. “We’ve been married 20 years, and I think this is our ninth move,” said Lt. Col. Manuel Ramirez, who […]
August 7, 2018
Academics
California’s Online College Will Break New Ground
California’s online community college will represent a new vision for higher education when it launches next year and the online education field is watching to see whether it succeeds. The new fully online college draws from a variety of sources, including public universities’ online degree programs, corporate worker training initiatives and programs at for-profit colleges. […]
August 7, 2018
Policy
Senators Offer Bill to Help Translate Military Training to College Credit
WASHINGTON- U.S. Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) today introduced bipartisan legislation to provide more veterans an opportunity to translate their military training into college credit, which is important to helping increase veteran graduation rates. The Military Learning for Credit Act allows all veterans to use veterans education assistance funds to cover portfolio assessments […]
August 7, 2018
Veterans
Minnesota Officials Help Veterans Find Purposeful Jobs
They dashed across geometric-pattern carpet from booth to booth, in dress shoes and worn sneakers. Handshakes turned to polite conversations peppered with questions about company structure and advancement opportunities. While the gathering resembled a typical job fair, this one had a twist. “I’m looking for something permanent,” said Rhit Paul, a 48-year-old Marine Corps veteran […]
August 7, 2018
Academics
DeVos Wants to Rewrite Rules on Higher Ed, Accreditation
The U.S. Education Department is going back to the drawing board on some basic rules of higher education, including one concept that has been in place for 125 years. The goal? Unleash innovation to better serve students. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has called for a “major shift” in how we provide higher education: “We have […]
August 7, 2018
Academics
How Well Does Army Train Strategic Leaders?
Remember how we graded the Army’s Command and General Staff College some weeks ago? Well, along now comes the Army War College’s “War Room” to grade the Army on the question of “How good is the U.S. Army at developing strategic leaders?” C- responded Col. Edward Ballanco: “the Army has produced a generation of specialized […]
August 7, 2018
Policy
New V.A. Secretary Puts ‘Forever GI Bill’ into Effect
The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun implementing new provisions of the Harry W. Colmery Educational Assistance Act of 2017, better known as the “Forever GI Bill.” In one of his first actions since taking the oath of office Monday, new VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said the provisions to expand GI Bill coverage were put […]
August 7, 2018
Veterans
Picture of Health: Seeking Military Women, Veterans
A state health education program is seeking women on active military duty and female veterans to share their health-related stories and images from active duty to further the studies of health care professionals and advance care for veteran women of the region and state. The stories and images will be compiled into posters to be […]
August 3, 2018
Veterans
V.A. and PsychArmor Offer Online Suicide Prevention Training
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in collaboration with PsychArmor Institute, a national nonprofit that provides online education and support to Americans who work with, live with or care for military service members, veterans and their families, recently launched an online suicide-prevention training video, titled – one who interacts with veterans to demonstrate care, […]
August 3, 2018
Other News
Spinoff Tackles /$1B Online Education Market
WATERLOO — There is a new player in the growing market for online education, and it has hundreds of customers around the world just months after it launched. DigitalEd was recently spun out of Maplesoft, a company founded in 1988 by two University of Waterloo math professors. At the core of Maplesoft’s software is a […]
August 3, 2018
Other News
Udacity Looks to Future
Udacity helped start the whole MOOC craze several years ago, offering online courses that drew tens of thousands of students and sparking a conversation about whether these new online programs could replace college as we know it. These days, the company has a billion-dollar valuation, but its scope is more focused on offering courses designed […]
August 3, 2018
Veterans
What You Should Know about Optional Transition Assistance
The mandatory portion of the military’s Transition Assistance Program includes pre-separation counseling, the main three parts in the TAP curriculum, and the Capstone at the end. In addition to the required aspects, there is a non-mandatory part of TAP which mainly consists of optional “tracks” that service members can take as an extended part of […]
August 3, 2018
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